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Twenty Years of Fellowship
Turns out that it’s been 20 years since the premiere of Peter Jackson’s take on The Fellowship of the Ring. Truly difficult to believe that much time has passed. So I’ll just leave this right here:
Saturday’s Rest
The fall semester officially came to a close yesterday. I’ve been done with classes since Monday, but have had grading (and re-grading?) to do, along with a mix of meetings and cleaning. I’ll still go in a bit on Monday … Continue reading
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Entering the Every
For the first time in months, I’ve changed the “currently reading” information on the side of this page. I finished A Secular Age by Charles Taylor last night around 11:00. I’d made that commitment earlier in the day and then, … Continue reading
Traction and Distraction
If you can’t already tell, I’m trying to use this two-week “break” to find my way back to posting here regularly. This last quarter has been a lot busier than I had anticipated. And while I’ve mostly been able to … Continue reading
Posted in Notes for a World's End, Teaching
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Tome Reader
I spent the first half of 2021 mostly reading short books, books that hovered nicely around the 200 page mark. Since the summer, though, I’ve been in a season of (two) longer books, some of the longest I’ve ever read. … Continue reading
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Look! New Photos!
If you look to the right side of this page, you’ll notice that I’ve updated my Flickr account with some new photos- the first new batch in over a year, I think. This past weekend I took a quick trip … Continue reading
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An Unexpected Reading Journey
So last week I looked into purchasing an old novel by George MacDonald (an inspiration of C. S. Lewis). When it arrived, I realized that I had not read the “fine print” well- the “scholar’s edition” that I had purchased … Continue reading
A Kind of Summer Ending
It’s June 30th, which means I’m unofficially bringing a certain phase of “summer vacation” to an end. June has been good: a quality trip home, a few weeks to (re)establish some daily and weekly rhythm and routines, good sleep and … Continue reading
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Short Season of Sequels
I finished Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary a few days ago. It’s the kind of novel that almost demands a sequel (or at least a second novel that dovetails with missing but intriguing plot points). Sequels are always a little … Continue reading
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What We Might Have Given
Yesterday I wrote a bit about the “work” that I had set up for myself this summer using some thoughts from an Ephraim Radner article from March 2020. At almost the same time, the folks at First Things also posted … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 